event loops and Python?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
> >just call mainloop(), and off you go.
>
> Looks like that calls a mainloop() method on a Tk toplevel.  This is
> bad if you're not running in X.

sorry, failed to parse that.  Tkinter uses X windows on Unix,
native toolkits on Mac and Windows.  the event loop works
in the same way on all platforms.  what's the problem here?

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